Alexander Williams
Assistant Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy
1401-D Marie Mount Hall
University of Maryland / College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-1607
[[what's my email name?]] @umd.edu
Interests
Verb semantics and argument structure; philosophy of language; languages of China; categorial and tree-adjoining grammars
"So a great part of the work of a philosopher consists, or at least ought to consist, in a struggle against language." -Frege, 1924
"Is it not possible that the next century may see the birth, through the joint labors of grammarians, and numerous other students of language, of a true and comprehensive science of language?" -Austin, 1956
Semantics at Maryland, MACSIM, PHLING
Papers
Teaching
CV
A painting of me as a zombie by my son, at 3yrs 9mos.
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